Taylor McLendon joins the show from his studio at Lowe Mill for a conversation about art, identity, pain, process, and the things we carry until we are ready to let them go.

Taylor’s work is visual, which made this episode immediately interesting for an audio-only podcast. How do you talk about art people normally experience with their eyes? How do you honor the scale, texture, and feeling of someone’s work without turning the episode into a gallery tour?

That tension became part of the conversation.

We talk about Lowe Mill, creative identity, the weight inside Taylor’s work, what gets expressed, what stays hidden, and how making something can become a way of releasing something. This one also became personal for me. For a long time, I dreamed about having a studio inside Lowe Mill. I still feel that when I walk through the buil ...